Hagee: Blood Moons Start of End Times

Early Tuesday morning we had the first of four “blood moons” — eclipses where atmospheric conditions make the moon look blood red — and a whole bunch of Christian conservatives of the premillenial variety have been heralding it as the sign of…well, something really important. John Hagee is one of them.

Hagee, pastor of Texas’ Cornerstone Church, has written a book on the phenomenon titled Blood Moons: Something is About to Change. And he is airing a live television event on Tuesday to reveal “direct connections between four upcoming blood-moon eclipses and what they portend for Israel and all of humankind.”

“Is this the end of the age?” Hagee asked during a recent sermon, before quoting Acts 2:19-20: And I will show wonders in Heaven above and signs in the Earth beneath, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”

“I believe that the heavens are God’s billboard, that he has been sending signals to planet Earth,” he explained. “God is literally screaming at the world, ‘I’m coming soon.’”

Hagee predicted that the four eclipses were signaling a “world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015.”

“God sends planet Earth a signal that something big is about to happen! He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal, but the question is, are we getting it?”

You know what the blood moons portend? Absolutely nothing. Here’s video of him selling this moronic snake oil to his credulous followers.

The fact that we can predict the occurrence of “blood moons” by understanding the natural processes that cause them kind of suggests that they are not the product of supernatural control of the heavens. The very fact that he can predict them denies the conclusion he’s drawing from those predictions!

Do you suppose he knows this, and is just shamelessly manipulating credulous people, or if he really is this delusional?

When I saw the dates of future eclipses, I was wondering if he actually took 2 minutes on Google to look them up or if he pulled the dates out of his ass. The dates are correct. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2014.html

But that begs the question: if you understand that people can predict eclipses, how does it make any sense that God is moving things around at his will to send us a message?

Larry

And, when nothing happens as a result of the eclipses, the so-call prophecies will be forgotten whilst Hagee and his ilk will move on to the next shiny object with which the flock can be fleeced.

John Pieret

He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal …

Ummm … if God is controlling the Sun and the moon, then how does Hagee know that there are going to be three more lunar eclipses? The only way that they have been predicted is based on the consistent laws of motion and astrophysics. If God is controlling the Sun and moon (and Earth, you moron), the best way for he/she/it to let us know that is to change the orbits so that one or more of the predicted eclipses don’t happen.

Kevin Kehres

@8…but you have to notice how completely non-specific Hagee is about what would fulfill his “prophecy”.

Cataclysm. Some kind of. Nonspecific. Could be anything from a stock market downturn to a big earthquake to the Democrats retaining control of the Senate. Anything at all, in fact.

Oh no. Hagee is going to claim the gift of prophecy for sure. Because in the space of 18 months, something will happen. Because something always happens.

Sadly, he’s only 74, so I can’t prophecize that he won’t survive to claim his victory. These cretins are long-lived. Billy Graham is still hanging on in his 90s. Only the good die young, as Billy Joel once proclaimed.

This whole God business would be a lot more believable if he literally did scream at us every now and then. Covering the moon with the Earth’s shadow isn’t very impressive. Didn’t David Copperfield do that one back in the ’80s?

Oh man, if not for that vacuum of space we would be able to hear God’s literal screams. But then wouldn’t we die or something if we actually heard God’s voice? Or is it just seeing him that kills (sometimes)?

countryboy

Geez dugglebogey , don’t insult cavemen. They were probably more intelligent than Hagee and his ilk.

Michael Heath

This is a great example on how religion makes people act stupid. Not necessarily Hagee, but his certainly devotees. Hagee’s very popular where I live, similar to how Hal Lindsay was popular in the 1970s in this neck of the woods.

tbp1

There have been at least a dozen articles (actually more like advertisements for some guy’s book) on this subject over at WND, each more stupid than the last.

As others have pointed out, these are entirely natural phenomena, as predictable as sunrise, sunset, or the tides, just not as frequent. You’d think a good omen would be something not completely predictable, something actually surprising and inexplicable. You know, a miracle.

And even if there were such a thing as an omen, what good is an omen if people can’t agree on what it means?

And why can’t an omnipotent, omniscient deity come up with a more efficient manner of communication?

otrame

@1

John Hagee is a liar. He lies consistently and when telling the truth would be more effective than lying. I’ve seen him tell outrageously and obviously false stories about a “Good Christian Woman™” who stuck by her husband while he was in jail, when simply telling the true story about a woman who stuck by her man while he was in jail would have been fine. When I say “obviously false” I mean she would go late at night to the fields where the prisoners worked (this is at Huntsville) and leave clothes detergent so her husband could wash clothes for the other prisoners and make a little money, which he sent to her, like the Good Christian Man™ he had presumably become after whatever crime it was he committed. And if you believe any part of that, friends, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you and Hagee has a truly enormous number of books for sale as well.

The very first time I saw him, shortly after we moved back to San Antonio (back in the day I always looked for the biggest megapreacher wherever we were, under the theory that you need to know what your enemy is up to) he said that a million children are sacrificed to Satan every Halloween in the US. Flat statement, in a tone that suggested that everybody knows it and his big old audience just nodded their heads and looked solemn.

As I’ve said before, the problem is not Hagee, it’s Hagee’s audience.

busterggi

Couldn’t see the ‘blood moons’ up my way because of clouds.

Guess my little portion of Earth is safe from god.

felidae

“The heavens are God’s billboard”–couldn’t a omniscient, omnipotent being have put up some real terrestrial billboards if he wanted to send humanity a message? After all, he made the universe, so why would he fuck around with nebulous shit like a blood moon

tsig

I see a blood moon a risin’

I see trouble on the way.

Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden

Why is it that guys are always hearing blood moons and looking up at the sky.

Hello?

Blood moons aren’t a harbinger of the end of humanity except in the sense that you need to be born before you die…

Sheesh.

dingojack

Dear Millennials –

Can you PLEASE teach god how to send a text message, or twitter or something. Sheesh.

Dingo

Crudely Wrott

I’m with felidae @25. Hagee says:

“I believe that the heavens are God’s billboard, that he has been sending signals to planet Earth,” he explained. “God is literally screaming at the world, ‘I’m coming soon.’”

If this god has a billboard and it’s the whole damned sky, for crying out loud, why doesn’t it write something on it? Like maybe moving the stars around to form letters and words and things like comprehensible messages?

Stuff like the aforementioned “I’m coming” or, “Tighten up, y’all! Time is short” or “Drink more Ovaltine”.

Michael Rich, tread carefully. I was thinking about using Snake Plissken’s photo as my gravatar* until I got a mysterious phone call from–well, let’s just say it was a bad idea on my part.

“The term “pink moon” has also been applied to the recent eclipse.”

So, is it cosmological conjunctivitis or, gasp! a sign of the coming GAYPOCALYPE!!?

* I actually look quite a bit like him, except for the hair and the being “ripped” part–and the sneer–but I totes have the eye patch from when I scratched my cornea a while back. I usually only wear it on September 19th, though.

thebookofdave

He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal, but the question is, are we getting it?

Yeah, I think so. The Sun and moon are following a predictable course, uncorrected by any controller input: autopilot. So God’s signal to his creation must be: “There’s no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?”

birgerjohansson

“God is literally screaming at the world”

In case no one recalls the movie posters for “Alien” back in 1977 , let me remind you “in space, no one can hear you scream!”

dingojack

birgerjohansson – uh, Alien was released on 1 Jan 1979 (in the US).

Dingo

sqlrob

I think the events in Acts coming true would be a good start at proving god. Moon between the sun and earth at the same time the earth is between the moon and the sun? Yeah, that’s a trick.

I wonder if the writers of Acts were having an inside joke against the readers. Make something that sounds good, point and laugh at the people falling for it.